Thanks to the efforts of Lee McLamb, EVP AMSAT, we discovered a new
opportunity to get our communications packages and antennas on board
Intelsat launches. Rick Hambly and the AMSAT executive team have been
negotiating nearly nonstop with Intelsat. They have released us to go
put the entire project together, design/funding/etc. and to publicize
the opportunity. The engineering team has been restructured to take
maximum advantage of this opportunity and to see that it serves radio
amateurs world wide.
More will follow from Rick and others and we return to our transparent
mode now that we have been allowed, for the first time, to speak openly
about the opportunity and have them confirm to those making inquiries
that we are working with them to build a mission.
Bob
N4HY
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AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL,
TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair
“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why
must the pessimist always run to blow it out?” Descartes
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